Make it so good and so clear that it doesn’t need any further explanation.
SHEL SILVERSTEINShe had blue skin. And so did he. He kept it hid, And so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, Then passed right by – And never knew.
More Shel Silverstein Quotes
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Tell me I’m clever, Tell me I’m kind, Tell me I’m talented, Tell me I’m cute, Tell me I’m sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I’m perfect – But tell me the truth.
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I’ve found my missin’ piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I’ve found my missin’ piece.
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How much good inside a day? Depends on how good you live ’em. How much love inside a friend? Depends on how much you give ’em.
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But all the magic I have known I’ve had to make it myself.
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If the track is tough and the hill is rough, thinking you can just ain’t enough.
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I can be somebody’s and still be my own.
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Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
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Don’t know where he’s going but sees where he’s been.
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And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?
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Anything is possible. Anything can be.
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And the tree was happy.
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It’s all the same to the clam.
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Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
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We can’t hold hands – someone might see. Won’t you please, Hold toes with me?
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The baby bat Screamed out in fright, turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.
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And he didn’t really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere because you really have to go somewhere, don’t you?
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understand each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings.
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Everything isn’t everything.
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If you are a dreamer come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tails to spin, come in, come in.
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I know a way to stay friends forever, there’s really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, and you do it.
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If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.
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This boat that we just built is just fine – and don’t try to tell us it’s not the sides and the back are divine – It’s the bottom I guess we forgot.
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I am writing these poems From inside a lion.
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And she loved a boy very, very much- even more than she loved herself.
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And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.
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Are wild strawberries really wild?
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